History Literature / Juliette

* EveryoneIsBi: Seems to be an AuthorFilibuster by Marquis De Sade. Just about every libertine Juliette comes across, is a bisexual nymphomaniac who is also a ruthless serial killer. The odds of finding bisexual libertines who are interested in every sort of fetish, in the 18th century, may seem low, but it's upon the reader's credulousness.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The one "redeeming" thing about the libertines is that they betray and murder each other habitually. Nourviel kills Saint-Fond and Juliette kills Clairwil. However, interestingly, Juliette sometimes purposely averts this. She's tempted to kill Minski, a Muscovite who threatened to kill her, but she relents because she can't stand the thought of depriving the world of such a ruinous criminal.

* VillainProtagonist: Most of the characters in the novel who are not victims. Contrary to her sister Justine, Juliette is extremely cruel and sado-masochistic, willing to go to any length to gain pleasure; be it [[spoiler: Poisoning an entire town or betraying her fellow libertines]]
* WickedCultured: Juliette is very well-versed in historical and mythological figures associated with depravity and hedonism, like Tiberius, UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, Messalina, Empress Theodora, Aphrodite (or Venus, as she calls her), and Dionysus (or Bacchus, as she calls him).

* AnythingThatMoves: Juliette fucks everything under the sun. Men, women, children, animals...

''Juliette'' is a novel written by the infamous Creator/MarquisDeSade around the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution. It's a companion piece to his previous novel, ''Justine''. While ''Justine'' focuses on a girl who is punished for being virtuous, ''Juliette'' focuses on her titular sister, who is rewarded for her vice.

* AuthorAppeal: Like most of de Sade's works, practically every character is an out-and-out atheist if not anti-theist who despises the idea of the universe being a benevolent or fair place, much less once made by a benevolent deity. As the title makes clear, vice and hedonism are rewarded, torture, rape, and murder are commonplace, and every sociopathic prick is a KarmaHoudini. It's like if one took HumansAreBastards and HobbesWasRight as jerk-off material, which the author very well may have.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Purposely averted. The libertines do show a fondness for each other, but they always make sure to specify that [[InLoveWithYourCarnage they're in love with their ''[[InLoveWithYourCarnage depravity]]'', [[InLoveWithYourCarnage not them]]. They murder and betray each other without hesitation.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, Pope Pius VI, and Cardinal de Bernis make an appearance. Naturally, they get a HistoricalVillainUpgrade. And according to Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, Princess Sophia is supposed to be the real-life Princess Wilhelmina with the names changed.

Set in the 1780s, ''Juliette'' starts off as a young girl raised in a nunnery, but later joins a brothel in her teenage years. She becomes the most prestigious, sought-after prostitute among the French Aristocracy, and eventually falls in love with three elites, Saint-Fond, Noirceuil, and Clairwel, who collectively corrupt her into a murderous, nymphomaniacal noblewoman that goes on a decade-long misadventure of debauchery and degeneracy.

* CardCarryingVillain: The libertines literally call themselves "the Sodality of The Friends of Crime" (a parody of the real-life Society of the Friends of the Constitution, better known as the Jacobin Club).

* CorruptPolitician: Saint-Fond is a member of France's Council of Ministers. His exact office isn't specified, but he seems to be a treasurer of some sort. He uses his powers to induce a famine. Noirceuil eventually poisons him and usurps his position.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Purposely averted. The libertines do show a fondness for each other, but they always make sure to specify that they're in love with their ''depravity'', not them. They murder and betray each other without hesitation.

* EvilIsPetty: Even though Saint-Fond doesn't believe in religious mythology, he still can't stand the thought of his victims going to Heaven after he kills them. So he performs a Satanic pact to doom them to Hell, just to be safe.

%%* FrenchJerk %% Zero Context

* MoneyFetish: Juliette is the richest woman in Europe, and she doesn't even spend any of it. She simply likes hoarding money and conning millions from people for the sake of it, aroused by the idea of poor people getting even poorer.

* OmnicidalManiac: Saint-Fond hates the lower class so much that he orchestrates a ''genocide'' on them by causing a catastrophic famine.

''Juliette'' is a novel written by the infamous Creator/MarquisDeSade around the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution. It's a companion piece to his previous novel, ''Justine''. While ''Justine'' focuses on a girl who is punished for being virturous, ''Juliette'' focuses on her titular sister, who is rewarded for her vice.

* AnarchyIsChaos: De Sade's philosophy on government and society is explored; he believes that law is unfair and lawlessness is fair, because the law is one-sided (only the law has the power to persecute and not vice versa) while lawlessness allows everyone to victimize each other equally.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Clairwil makes many long-winded monologues about how much she hates men, and seeks to avenge the eternity of female oppression by sadistically butchering little boys and grown men alike. She isn't, however, opposed to carving up females either.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The story follows Juliette's 20 year journey, where she goes from a young orphan girl in a nunnery to the biggest menace in Europe.

* OmnicidalManiac: Saint-Fond hates the lower-class so much that he orchestrates a ''genocide'' on them by causing a catastrophic famine.

* SmokyGentlemensClub: The Sodality of The Friends of Crime is a private social club that all of France's libertines are secretly members of. Only the wealthiest can get in, since it demands an extremely high membership fee.

* TooKinkyToTorture: The thing about the libertines is that there is no torture or humiliation they commit that they wouldn't gladly accept themselves. Juliette literally swallows feces of her male servants for the fun of it, and Durand isn't fazed by the idea of getting skinned alive.

* WouldHurtAChild: There is no cruelty Juliette wouldn't inflict on children, including her own 7 year old daughter.

* FrenchJerk: The biggest understatement of all time.

Set a few years before the Revolution, ''Juliette'' starts off as a young girl raised in a nunnery, but later joins a brothel in her teenage years. She becomes the most prestigious, sought-after prostitute among the French Aristocracy, and eventually falls in love with three elites, Saint-Fond, Noirceuil, and Clairwel, who collectively corrupt her into a murderous, rape-hungry noblewoman that goes on a decade-long misadventure of debauchery and degeneracy.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Quite fittingly, de Sade hated the French Aristocracy with a seething passion, so he depicted them as being irredeemably depraved and oppressive.

* AnarchyIsChaos: De Sade's admittedly interesting philosophy on government and society is explored; he believes that law is unfair and lawlessness is fair, because the law is one-sided (only the law has the power to persecute and not vice versa) while lawlessness allows everyone to victimize each other equally.

* BestialityIsDepraved: Although never depicted, Juliette offhandedly mentions that she sometimes has sex with large dogs. Ironically, it's probably her ''tamest'' hobby.

* CombatSadomasochist: The thing about the libertines is that there is no torture or humiliation they commit that they wouldn't gladly accept themselves. Juliette literally swallows feces of her male servants for the fun of it, and isn't fazed by the idea of getting skinned alive.

* ExtremeLibido: Juliette's nymphomania defies possibility. There's a scene where she has sex with ''thousands'' of people in a ''single day''.

* EvilIsPetty: Even though Saint-Fond doesn't believe in religious theology, he still can't stand the thought of his victims going to Heaven after he kills them. So he performs a Satanic pact to doom them to Hell, just to make sure.

%%* FrenchJerk: The biggest understatement of all time.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat and Pope Pius VI make an appearance. Naturally, they get a HistoricalVillainUpgrade.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Catherine the Great and Pope Pious VI are treated as libertines, meaning they gleefully rape and murder children.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The author says at the very end that Juliette died 10 years after the book's ending, without giving details. Since the book takes place a few years before the French Revolution, this could possibly imply that Juliette was one of the many aristocrats guillotined by crazed revolutionaries. There was no one who deserved it more than her. Then again, she probably enjoyed it.

* CardCarryingVillain: The libertines literally call themselves "the Sodality of The Friends of Crime".

* StrawNihilist: The libertines believe that morality, love, and religion are all nonsense and that the only "right" thing to do is to appease Mother Nature by obeying your basest and most primal urges, which will inevitably include sex and violence. Some scholars have even tried linking De Sade's influence to Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, but the supposed connection isn't concrete (there's no firm evidence he read Sade, and Nietzche's view is more that these things must be created anew, not simply dismissed entirely, nor did he advocate sadism).

Set a few years before the Revolution, ''Juliette'' starts off as a young girl raised in a nunnery, but later joins a brothel in her teenage years. She becomes the most prestigious, sought-after prostitute among the French Aristocracy, and eventually falls in love with three elites, Saint-Fond, Noirceuil, and Clairwel, whom collectively corrupt her into a murderous, rape-hungry noblewoman that goes on a decade-long misadventure of debauchery and degeneracy.

* CombatSadomasochist: The thing about the libertines is that there is no torture or humiliation they commit that they wouldn't gladly accept themselves. Juliette literally wallows feces of her male servants for the fun of it, and isn't fazed by the idea of getting skinned alive.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Juliette tries so hard to not have anything resembling standards, but even ''she'' is shook by Saint-Fond's plan to cause a genocidal famine. Her momentary hesitation is enough for Saint-Fond to exile her from France for decades.

* HollywoodAtheist: The libertines do not simply just disbelieve in God, but absolutely abhor the concept of religion.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The one "redeeming" thing about the libertines is that they betray and murder each other habitually. Nourviel kills Saint-Fond and Juliette kills Clairwil. However, interestingly, Juliette sometimes purposely averts this. She's tempted to kill Minski, a Muscovite who threatened to kill her, but she relents because she can't stand the thought of depriving the world of such a ruinious criminal.

* NunTooHoly: Juliette was raised by a convent of nuns, whom taught her to hate God and engage in sadistic orgies.

* StrawNihilist: The libertines believe that morality, love, and religion are all nonsense and that the only "right" thing to do is to appease Mother Nature by obeying your basest and most primal urges, which will inevitably include sex and violence. Some scholars have even tried linking de Sade's influence to Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, the creator of nihilism, but the connection isn't concrete.

* FrenchJerk: The biggest understatement of all time.

** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: However, the author does say at the very end that Juliette died 10 years after the book's ending, without giving details. Since the book takes place a few years before the French Revolution, this could possibly imply that Juliette was one of the many aristocrats guillotined by crazed revolutionaries. There was no one who deserved it more than her. Then again, she probably enjoyed it.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The one "redeeming" thing about the libertines is that they betray and murder each other habitually. Nourviel kills Saint-Fond and Juliette kills Clairwil.
** However, interestingly, Juliette sometimes purposely averts this. She's tempted to kill Minski, a Muscovite who threatened to kill her, but she relents because she can't stand the thought of depriving the world of such a ruinious criminal.

* WouldHurtAChild: There is no cruelty Juliette wouldn't inflict on children, including her own 7 year old daughter.

''Juliette'' is a novel written by the infamous Creator/MarquisDeSade around UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution. It's a companion piece to his previous novel, ''Justine''. While ''Justine'' focuses on a girl who is punished for being virturous, ''Juliette'' focuses on her titular sister, who is rewarded for her vice.

* StrawFeminist: Clairwil makes many long-winded monologues about how much she hates men, and seeks to avenge the eternity of female oppression by sadistically butchering little boys and grown men alike. She isn't, however, opposed to carving up females either.